Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1898, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, DECEM BER 5, 1898-20 PAGES. | Se e : Ser ee eee Sg et R ECTS : irs - Denson Checks cashed fre of charge OF LOCAL IN TEREST teen lens at" each ‘yer laborers a P OSP IN en i3 s ECKS No obligation to buy. Gee 3 is Hahn’s December SHOE A Record It Pays to Read at the very Our Ads. ipa ad 7 ines w Qeiore Janvary Ist—even if at Our “Special December I ber Footwe: We're breaking all previous Shoe- selling records so far this month—sim because we're quoting special low prices merchants are looking for big profits. We do so to round up our stock before the end of the year. Shoes we » desire to discontinue—must all be turned into cash r suitable for Xmas pre ev-saving times to all prudent Holiday shoppers. SALE Breaker. niply time of the year when other ‘ve bought too many of— to us * on Slippers and Rub- ents make these mon- a los rice: FOLLOWING SPECIALS FOR TODAY A? TOMORROW ONLY: . fo encourage FZ ! ae se pati fee hoppais me) en meen See ee Forenoon! ©F day Gift — only 1 pair to uustomer. Tomorrow till noon only Worsted Kaltted Slip : “Klondike” | 4 oday SUppers, in P swith carp } - = | Men's Chenille | or | sak OW Velvet I : Honse§ a | Men's - Hand - Torn Tan and 9O5¢ Viel Kid Hands 5 ° Tollet Slippers z Tr Ladies’ Te nay Far - trin and Misses’ Dressy, Tomorrow. f laced and but = prices—we ordered y last apring. )NDAY AND TUESDAY... fade $2 Iand-sewed ndidly Men's Triple-sole, Extenslon-edze Storm Calf Laced Shoes, with backstays popntar everywhere ell wn ® 05 Hand White 26 ; 4 Kid Laced and tats | part > 3 single and donhle soles a ihe bulldog ‘> : withent cork soles—kid and pat- | eieall Gintced sa > + amd eemgegtt a MONDAY AND TUESDAY ° ie} - YNDAY AND TUESDAY... ) Men's Best Box Calf. Caif-l a. ip: > nar $3.50 Rest Kid and | strictly Winter Dress Sty > ? mt Laced avd Button probably « prettiest style + ; and natural wool | this . regular price fn jc | $8.50. bot & jaee our sur: le MONDAY AND TCESDAY.. ° | MONDAY AND TUESDAY.. ° : H h & Cc Ie Corner 7th and K YyV 7 r : Wim. ann 0.8 19t4 and 1916 Penn. Ave. : 3 Reliable Shoe Houses, 233 Pa. Ave. S. E coL, MOOR TESTIMONY. the 4 — safely enter a ee ‘Tents | too, we hav Why Inferior Clothing and sha wal ee Were Bought for the Army. inves < M. Moore. various bi ample ¢xhit d oto him in Col. Moore dered exorbitant, had insisted up Tnment $180,000 Tampa gov time he was a! e+ TO BEAUFORT. INGE ‘for Smalls Points Out It« Value | as a Rendezvous for Troops. wing letter, dated Beaufort. S. 3, has been sent by Robert stoms at that port, accompanied by the hon- War, are about to visit ion and an ure turn to Wash: aufort, > desire to F an facili- | s ssess of transporting them to | hh our port. H your attention to the E t landing | civil war was harbor, where } The Amen! of marriage is always a baby. | Without it, wedlock is a summer field | that never blooms, a flower that never buds, a night without stars, a sermon without a ben- ediction, a prayer without an Amen There never was a husband ¥ of the name, who did not aspire he father and the grandfather of capable children to hand down « and the fortune accumulated by of his brow, from generation to There never was a wife fitto oble title, who did not wish to manhood’s most glorious crown, ‘¢ of motherhood. Thousands couples, otherwise happy, fall wedlock’s greatest happiness be- they are childless. Im the majority of cases, this is because the wife, through iguorauce or neglect, suffers from weak- ness and disease of the organs distinctly feminine. For women who suffer in this way there is one great medicine that does hot fail to accomplish its purpose. It is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Preseription. It acts directly on the delicate organs concerned aud makes them strong, healthy, vigorous, virile and elastic. It allays inflammation, | | } j { } } Wear v the s of wee ort € heals ulceration. soothes pain and tones the shattered aerves. It fits for wifehood and thood. It quickens and vitalizes the distinctly feminine organism. It ban- ishes the maladies of the exp-ctant months and makes baby’s introduction to the world easy and almost painless. It insures the little new-comer’s health and nourishment in y. Itis the best supportive tonic fe ing mothers, E Sfrs Jennie Parks, of Marshall, Spokane Co. Wash. writes: “Tam glad to tell of the good reaul your it msedicine,— Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. I was benefited by your medicine in confimement. It gives me strength. and my baby is the I have no tired feeti h picture ot health. 1 feel better than T have im ten years. In cases of constipation Dr. Pierce’s Pieasant Pellets should be used as an adjunct to the “Favorite Prescription,” they are extremely simple, perfectly natural and insure prompt and permanent relief, profitable ar | ed roll call H. | man of ¢ on eri seven candidates for di twelve for Grand Lodge degree Daly, dist chief templar, o¢ chief vis magi and i t During the civil war this the prineipel army headqua various times 20,400 troops werr com var i Ss one hat time a w at moved without hindrance of any sort, and we beg ain the etforts heret 1 of the service, to h Items in the Estimates Sent to Congress. FOR RIVER IMPROVEMENT $100,000 Appropriation of $100,000 for the Zoo Favored. INCREASE IN CLERKSHIPS ee Many paragraphs of local interest appear in the annual book of estimates laid before the House today for action by the appro- priations committee in making up the ap- propriation for the year 1900. In submitting the estimates for the District of Columbia, amounting to $230,807.07, which were pub- lished in detail in The Star when prepared ‘by the Commissioners last fall, the Secre- tary of the Treasury makes the following note: he Secretary of the Treasury, being un- able to indicate the several items of esti- mates for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia in which changes should be made, disapproves of the total amount as submitted by the Com- missioners and recommends therein of $2,000,000," This recommendation reduces to $7,230,- the amount upon which the House committee is to start to work in getting up the District bill. The following recommendations of appro- priations gre included in the estimates, the figures in parentheses indicating | the amount appropriated for the current year: Library of Congress — Salaries, $159,540 ; contingent expenses, $2,000 ($1,- increase of library, $44,680 ($23,000); and maintenance of library, $68,056 ; fuel. lights, a reduction garden, $18,893 Honse—Clecical contingent 5 ($18,893.75). force, $44,240 expenses, — $12,000 ($10,009), Civil Service Commission. vil ion, $117,540 ($91,- . as follows: Threé commissioners, at 0) each: one chief examiner; one secre- tary ($40 submitted); three chief of di- vision, at $2, each (submitted); one law kk (submitted); six clerks of class four redaction of two); ten clerks of class thirteen clerks of class two; fifteen one; sixteen clerks, at $1,000 seven copyists, four copyists, at $840 each (three submitted, one in lieu of messenger at $840): one copyist, at $720 (submitted); one engineer; two watchmen, ach; three laborers, at $660 each mitted). lition to the regular force of sixty- there are thirty-six persons rving on detail with the commi: examiners and clerks, from the v fa three; Ks of ¢ each (thirteen submitted); at $800 each (five submitted): partments. The aggregate thirty-six examiners and clerk: The commi n asks that a » given twenty-five employ: regating $25,800, thus effecting ving. With examiners and clerks rect control more effective work under its can be di extent that it 1 pond in charac by chiefs to the du place of rend and whic tion could s: your visit to this monstration of wel cutter at your d to bring you and your party | which would afford you the opportunit we so earnestly desir See what we to show. mira offic dated Decembe Doe. ment, Ex. a ich I quote the following: he harbor of Port Koyai, S. tributaries present great advant offer the th of rilitie: port w to vesse Port Royal ble sheet of water, undoubted! harbor uthern coast. is that the place was so little preciated prior to 1861." require but a few to place bor of Port Royal, and clo: inspection es jc railroad to your destination in as few hours as f nd for which we will special arrangements to ¢ ttle ¢ as possible res ANNUAL SESSION. Business Meetings The Grand Lodge of the In mplars of the its fi tish its annual sess Rite Thursday eve E the Ha templar, showed twe nate lodges Undine, and three ju and Minnehaha chair while district de conferred, a which the ¢ igs enferred, the grand templar pr Templar Jones. Grand ‘ampbell, Grand Treasurer Daly : Superint« nt of Juvenile Temples Mrs L. J. Allen each read reports h were referred to committees, aft S Was taken, to meet in § rand templar called the Minnehaha Lodge room, e . at 10 o'clock Friday mv The several standing committees r upon the matters referred to th s ning, ng. in the main, the the officers, and their re; by the grand body. The g: tary’s report show a# falling off in membership, but a ¢ erable se in revenues, which would enable th nd bedy to pay off all our- standing ations. Action was taken natters of i which electio: was had. The ted without cont tions. Jesse C. suce les Phelps of F Lodge: Grand Chaplain Canfield. declining was sUce Miss McHenry of Minne- haha Lodge ing. was suc Minnehaha. and Marshal Watt, dectin- ded by Will McHenry of &. A. Dinsmore of Minnehaha Lodge elected representative to the Internatic Supreme Lodge, which meets in Toronto next June; Jesse C. Suter was elected ternate. Messrs. A. E. Shoemaker, A. N Canfield. Jesse C. Suter, E. H. Jones and Mrs. Cantield were elected delegates to the National Ant!-Saloon League, which meets in Cleveland next week. Right Worthy Grand Deputy A Can- field installed the grand officers, after which the Grand Lodge adjourned. ————— Permission Denied. The District Commissioners have denied @ request made by the United States Elec- tric Lighting Company for permission to repair a manhole in front of premises 734 15th street, in view of the fact that the manhole is part of a line for which a permit has already been granted, and which mut- ter is now before the courts upon an ap- plication for an Injunetion. Should the pe- tition of the Potomac Electric Power Com- pany, the complainant in the injunction proceedings, be answered so that the ques- tion cam be settled, and the great incen- venience caused the public by the torn-up condition of the streets be remedicd, the Commissioners state they would isspe the desired permit, of division in the depart- he matt rs coming before involve questions of law, tant that a law clerk should Many commission Lit is im 2 allowed.” Needed Increase in the Treasur: In the of the Secretary of the Tr ury the sulary Hst is recommended to be crea: 7 to % This cludes i 200 clerk, one elevator one fireman, one clerk at $1,000, t $1,400, four clerks at $900, one m r, Six laborers at $820 and some in- of salary. The auditor for the Treasury Department isks for three additional $1,200 clerks. The auditor for the War Department asks for ten clerks at $1,000 each, ten clerks at $000 each and three a nt messengers at $720 each, in fon to the force now Also, the following ted by the act of May Bight clerks of class four, s three, ten clerks and thirty clerks of class one. troller of the treasury recom- iditional appropriations, as follow mends Four expert accountants, at 10) each, $8,000. k of class four, $1,800; three clerks of four, in lieu of three clerks i); two clerks of class two, in lieu of two clerks of class one, $400. The auditor for the Navy Departmen following ade jerks: Tw hree, three of vo, four of class At $1,000, four post office submits lowing inc in his clerical force enty ad submitted; eighteen additional submitted: > dditional submitted; class udditional submitted. of y as follow! additional, submitted additional, | suty ion, at $ |. Submitted. vases in the office of the trea: nited States are requeste 8 2, four of class 1; $1,000; two at $900, one pre Office of register of the treasu ditiona at $1,000, In the War Depariment. office of the Secretary of War asks for an increase of clerical force from $96 to $147,910, as follows: Three additional chiefs of divisions at $4,000, one appoint- ment clerk at $2,000, two additional clerks M) each, $500 each The of class 3, one of class 2, two of class 1, six at $1,000, seven at $000, one at $600, four doorkeepers at $1,000, raph office telegraph operators at $1,200 each, Ks at $720 per anntm, two clerks at $600 annum, one check clerk, one delivery k, two Messengers at $480 each Adjutant general's office, additional force nded: Seven chiefs of sections at r clerks of class 4, eight . ix clerks of class fifty clerks 0 1, forty clerks at 000 each, forty-five clerks at $900 seven messengers at $810 each, three rs at $840 each, fifteen sistant me gers at $T20 each. Inspector general's office, additional force per 5 recommended: One clerk of class 4, one of class 3, two of class 1, one messenger, $840, gnal office, additional force recommend- lerk, $2,000 at $1,000, : One chief | three cler $1,409; cker, $600. Commissary general's office, force reeommended: Two © one clerk, $1,600; one storekeeper, additional of cla 4 nine of ee . additional force recommended: Ten clerks of class 1, ten at $1,000 each, two messengers, one draftsman, one assistant draftsman and one dental pathologist. Paymaster general's office, additional force recommended: Four clerks of class 3, five of class 2, eight of class 1, fifteen tem- porary clerks at $1,000; five laborers, tem- porarily. = For additional clerical force, chief of ord- nance, War Department. $34,000. In the office of superintendent of public buildings and grounds an increase of $7,000 is asked. Navy Department. ‘The Navy Department asks for but few additional clerks, scattered through the several bureaus, not more than half a dozen altogether. Post Office Department. ‘The following additional clerical force is asked in the Post Office Department: “One law clerk, $1,800; private secretary to as- sistant attorney general, $1,600. First as- sistant postmaster general's office, addi= The Genuine Horsford’s Acid Phospha Always has the name ‘* Horsford’s * on the Jabel. NEVER'SOLD IN BULK, Second assistant postmaster general—A decrease of two clerk#'et lass four and an increase of three clerks at $1,000. Third assistant postmaster general's of- fice—One additional clerk of, class four. Fourth assistant postmaster general—The following additional clenke are recommend- ed: Two of class four, four of class three, one of class one, two at $1@00, one at $900, one laborer at $660, one at $1,200, Department of Agriculture. Additional clerks are vecommended in the Department of Agriculture as follows: Two of class two, one of class one, one of class three, one at $1,600, ong .at $1,800, four of class one, one at $1,400, one at $840. Weather bureau—One assistant chief of bureau recommended, at $3,500. Department of Justice—One additional as- sistant attorney, $2,500; one law clerk, at $2,000; reduction of one clerk of class four: one additional assistant messenger, at $720. Army Headquarters. Headquarters of the army—Additional clerks recommended: Nine at $1,800, nine at $1,600, twelve at $1,400, seven at $900, eleven general serviee messengers at $840. Navy Yard, Washington, D. c. | For additional clerical force at the navy yard there were recommended one chemist, $2,500, and one assistant, at $1,600; one writer, $1,017. For new steel roof to pat- tern shop, $21,000; for new steel roof and repairs to copper rolling mill, $17,000; ex- tension of north gun shop, $15,000; new steel roof and extension cf store No. 12, $10,000; extension of storehouse for guns: ,000; shop and office building for C. and R., $100,000; one officer's quarters, $7,000. For constructing a lighthouse and’ fog signal near Ragged Point, Potomac rive a © Tiver, For River Improvements, For continuing improvement of the Poto- mac river at Washington, D. C., $100,000. For the National Zoo:ogical Park, $100,- 000, an increase of $35,000. e+ GOVERNMENT'S COST a Secretary Gage's Estimates Trans- ' mitted to Congress, gee FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900 Appropriations Needed by the Ex- ecutive Departments, INCREASE > FOR PENSION; - In conformit with the requirements of law, the Secretary of the Treasury today transmitted to’ Congress the e timates of appropriations required for the service of the fiseal year ending June $0, 1900, as fur- nished by the several’ eXpcutive depart- ments. These estimates, including perma- nent annual appropriations. aggregate $593, OAS,378, as against $30 3, the amount of the appropriations, inélfiding deficiencies and miscellane for the fixcal year 1999, end $462,647,885, the amount of the estimates for 1899. Following is ihe total recapitula- tion, cents omitted ce Estinlates Legislative establishment plishment Jadiclal establishment. Military Naval establishment. Indian affairs. Pensto Public Postal Permanent sumial apps Grand totals....5., “ The Military Establishment. The appropriations for the military estab- lishment for the fiscal year 1899 amounted to $287,841.446, and for the naval estab- ment, $107.816,468. For the military ablishment, estimates for the year 1900, covering the more important items, to- in each item ove are given as follow: s of the army, $450,000; in- and traveling expel 3- gether with the increa the estim Contingt crease, $4 of the a a nee st of the army, $17,68 bout $16,000,0002 regular upplies ster’s department, $14,000,000; in- inciden expenses rtment, 100,000; in~ transportation of” the army and supplies, $29,813,875; it e about $27,200,000; clothing, and camp and arrison equipage, $14,744,431; increase, quarters 1007, 0008: Se, $1,7: pital department, $1,975,000; ordnance. | ordn: supplies, $1.755,000, increase, $1 ufacture of arms, $800,000; increase, The Navy. For the naval esi Pay of the about $4,500,000; increase of the navy, $10,- 192,402; increase, for naval appren nt su12 ” maintenance na- on, Yerba Buena Island, ; (new) ordnance and ordnance stores, $1,875,000; Increase, $864,000; lighter for League Island navy $30,000 (new); machinery for ordnz ding, League Island navy yard, 36! new); naval magazine, Norfolk, Va., $2 ”0 (new); equipinent of vessels, $2,225,48( Increase, $741,827; naval hospital, Chelsea, Mass., $45,000 (new) provisions, $3,000,000; increase, $1,505,000; construction and repair, 35,000,000; increase, $500,000; repairs to U! S._S. Constitution, $150,000. Among the items under the head of public works are the following: Building for laboratory, marine hospital service, $50,000; public buildings Sitka. Alaska, $110,000; post office building at Buf- falo, N. Y., $231,000; post office building. Chicago. $0,000; publie building, Helena, Mont., $150,000; mint building, Philadelphia, custom house, Portland, Oreg., public building, St. Paul, Minn., public building, San Francisco, $600,000; 2007, 000 5 $250,000; $500,000. The Post Office Department. The Postmaster General estimates the de- ficiency in the postal reVenues for 1900 at S88. The estimate for army and navy Plan for the Management of Rural Free Deti¥ery System. The Postmaster Geneta}'has directed the division of the United Stites into seven districts with one agef{ “df more in each of them for the better ‘mitifiagement of the rural free delivery systeiiii The agent or agents in each distric?*Wifl have general supervision of the ruff) ?'delivery work within his Jurisdiction” ifeluding the in- -vestigation of all petitidns¢and the inaugu- ration of the work in athpiaces where it is to be undertaken. ataea The grouping of tha fates with the agents assigned to eagh group is as fol- lows: The eastern division egmprises the New England states, and New York and Penn- sylvania, with S. 0, Edison as special agent. * The Ohio division—Onio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the lower pen- insular of Michigan, I. G. Blackman and A. B. Smith, special ‘agents. The Maryland division—Maryland, Dela- ware, Virginia and the two Carolinas, M. S. Plummer and F. E, Bach, special agents. The Indiana division—Indiana, Tilinois, Missouri and Kansas, Francis M. Dice, spe- cial agent. a : The southern division—Ail the-southern Si. tes except those ni and Indiana d Oklahoma territories, W. B. Gaitree and Roger Murphy, agents. The Wisconsin division—Wisconsin, Min- nesota, the two Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska and the upper peninsular of Michigan, James Houston, agent. — Pacific coast and Rocky Mountain state division—All the westerg states and terri- tories rot. already mentioned, Thos. H. loupt and S. B. Bathbone, ir, agents. ~ the Evidences of Industrial Recuperation in the Island. A GOOD SUGAR CROP PREDICTED Tobacco Will Not Equal the Yield of Last Year. CATTLE AND THE — DAIRY (Copyright, 1808, by Charles M. Pepper.} From a Staff Correspondent. JARUCO, Cuba, November 30, 1898. Americans.are again panting to know about the business and industrial prospects in Cuba. Those who were coming a month ago and who were kept back by the yellow fever fright and the delay in military oc- cupaney are now appearing. A larger num- ber is following them. On this subject I can only repeat some hints, with the addition of what has been gathered by personal ob- servation during the last six weeks. The news regarding the details of military con- trol and the reconstruction of the civil government will necessarily fill the col- umns of the newspapers for a while to the exclusion of industrial and commercial in- formation. Yet all this time the movement along the lines of trade and agriculture will be going forward. To the people in the United States this is of equal import- ance. A Desolate Country. Cuba is a desolate country. It is literally a land unpitied of men. One may travel through it and wonder if its surface will even again smile with the offerings of trop- ical nature. The recuperation of its soil still lags. The stories told by the American officers who have visited the different sec- tions and have come back each time more appalled at the misery and desolation, are not exaggerated. It is true that in’ the country around Sancti Spiritus people are staying in the woods, living on roots and nuts, waiting for garments to clothe their nakedness before they come back to. the villages. ‘They are waiting also for food supplies which the land itself will be un- able to produce this year, because it hi been so thoroughly ravaged that its natural richness will require coaxing. All. these statements and many like them are correct. Anybody whose life has been spent in the midst of comfort and plenty can come to Cuba and write a vivid impressionist chap- ter on “miseria"—the disease that saps the life of the country and its inhabitants. In the face of these conditions it may seem a reckless statement to affirm that Cuba has improved, but from a comparative point of view this is true. The desert is not as limitless as it was a year ago. The oases are greener, broader and more numerous than a twelvemonth pa: The inhabitants who survived that period are managing to eke some existence from the soil. Their situation is bad, they need all the help that will be given them and which should be continued into the summer months. But the: able to do some- thing for their own support and they are doing it. If proof of this improvement were needed beyond what the eyes can see it is to be found In the districts where the in- surgent troops are camped. The e not living tn luxury, but by their own state- ments their existence is more comfortable than when they were in the brush. have not been the United St plies kave not c products of the s They & on rations sent fro for until this week s' from that source. The 1 are their sustenance. 3, Chief Source of Wealth, To this statement m: about the chief source of wealth in the is- land. The staple product is sugar. Gen- eral prosperity cannot come until Its pro- duction reaches something like the former amount, which was 1,000,000 tons. It fs not necessary to analyze at this time the stages y be added a word which the plantations must go through with before they are on the old basis or the eco- nomic and commercial methods which will then be practiced. That the old methods will be revolutionized capitalists already khow and persons who are not cap’ 3 s will in time find {t out. For the immediate future the sugar business is one for syn- dicates or companies or for individuals who can start with a bank account of $1,000,000, and have as a reserve a safe balance to be used when that amou invested. Small capitalists and investors will find their o portunities in collateral enterprises grow- ing out of the sugar industry and dependent upon it. Regarding this m's crop a hopeful word may be said. It will not be large, yet it will be big enough to make its handling of commercial importance. A month ago one of the statisticians who lives and breathes and has his being in the atmo: phere of sugar and molasses, told me th: a crop of 200,000 tons for thi all that could be expected. had raised the figures to in a month I expect to have him demon- strate that when the last of the crop fs in April the total production will 9) tons, This cannot he judged surface even from what the y. Most of them are desperate Their complaint now is that while they have the promise of labor t won't have the means with which to pay their laborers. But they are the planters hard up for ready money. on # managing to procure oxen and after that shift somehow money I think they will make a with their ‘credit and secure the needed for the laborers, The Tobacco Crop. With tobacco the season of planting ts past, but I have not found two men in the trade whose estimates of the crop agree. That it will not be equal to that of last year Is conceded. As to the actual amount the divergence of opinion is too wide to justify a guess. If American control had come immediately after the signing of the protocol the buyers and the manufscturers would have made advances to the vequeros or tobacco farmers, so that a larger crop would have been assured. What might have been in connection with tobaeco pro- duction this season is profitless specu tion. American control could not have prevented the rains which have been an- other drawback to the crop. In time to- bacco production will come up to its old production and will spread beyond thet. The business, however, is not for our in- vestors at present. They cannot enter suc- cessfully into competition with those wh have controlled it for years. Of the fields which are open I should that the most promising one is in grazing and dairy farming. The ecattlemen who have been in Havana ‘ooking after the trade which has grown out of the free ‘m- portation will not all admit as much. One of them came out this way on the train with me the other day. i had casually mentioned the immense stretches of good grazing land in Pinar del Rio und the ad- vantage which would aceree to whoever stocked those pastures. The opportunities in the central part of the island have also been commented on as justifying invest- ment. The cattleman disagreed with me peremptorily and gave positive reasons why Americans should keep out of the cattle business in Cuba. Now, while T used to drive the cows home when a boy and while ranch life in the west is not unknown to me, I am not an expert on the eattle tn- dustry. The cattleman’s dogmatic state- ments might have caused me to drop the discussion and to issue a warning to peo- ple in the United States against their com- ing to Cuba to engage in cattle raising except for one little circumstance. I knew that he and others whom he represented were arranging to invest their money in that business In Cuba. They want the first chance, and to be sure of getting it they talk discouragingly about the prospects so as to Keep the other man away. That is the secret of some unfavorable resorts which have gone back to the United States with reference to other matters than cattle. Dairy Farming. About the dairy fatming there ean be no question, Havana has some d@airies, It is only a few years since that an edict of the captain general forbade driving the cows from door to door to be milked. The goat is still driven through the streets to re- spond to the convenience of the customers. One of the dairies in Havana is located in | the Prado, with a fine mansion on either | side of it. Another is on Consulado sireet, a fashionable thoroughfare, which runs parallel to the Prado. Others are in differ- | Capt.A.T.Mahan Contributes to McCiure’s Maca- zink, beginning with the Decem- ber number, a series of articles on The War on Seaand Its Lessons. Captain Mahan was a member of the Naval Strategy Board. Day by day he studied The War in Its Making, and helped to mak it. He has, therefore, First- hand Command of Plans and Events possible to no other writer. Captain Mahan is recog nized abroad as well as at home to be the Foremost Naval Authority in the World and his articles are eagerly awaited in Europe and America as im- portant contributions to the history of naval warfare, and also for their suggestions and indications as to ships, armaments, operations and strategy of the future. These articles will emphatically constitute THE GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE WAR The first article explains what determined the direction and nature of The First Naval Movements, showing how, if the motive of the war had been different, the movements would have been differ- ent also. This series begins in the DECEMBER NUMBER of ~McCLURE’S Now on Sale Everywhere 10 Cents a Copy $1.00 a Year THE S. S. McCLURE CO., New York City ent parts of the city. The animals are kept in their stalls all day. When the sanita- tion of Havana by the American military authorities b-gins these dairie: to be moved out into the country. not supply the demand for which sells at 30 cents a quart. both Spania the American habit of using butter. Most of this is imported in small tins. The retail price of fresh butter in Havana is $1.25 per pound. Butter of the kind which Senator Proctor thought was strong enough to put down the insurrection brings $1 per pound and finds a ready market. jay—and it cannot be a very dis- tant day farming will be an impor- tant industry in Cuba. The people of the cities are ready enough to consume these as the outlet for the products of the south- west. Mobile is also showing energy. New #, as the gateway of the Mississipp!, appears to have no conception of a new commercial era in Cuba. It gives no signs of seizing the opportunities for t : are Its own. With some exceptions, it may be said truthfully that the southern stat-s are sending orators and stump speakers t Cuba, while other states are sending drum mers CHARLES M. PEPPER vPSESTs GOVERNMENT PATENT COMMISSION. Moreover, is and Cubans are falling into Important Matters Which Have Been Receiving Attention The government patent commission, which Ps has bee! ¢ g into eeded changes in oducts. They do not understand the pro- | "1 n inquiring into needed mges in duction. In the cafes of Havana asparagus | the tem, expects to submit its report can only be nad canned, though I am told; to Congress about the beginning the two or three crops a year utd be nage = new year. It has practically decided tc without exhausting the soil. Though cel- | 0°" mkt i : Nes Ae pocen som oon tie aroe recommend that applicants for patents whe applied abroad prior to filing here priority here from thi merchant assured me this be cause he retsed it successfully at his coun- given date of applics fon try place. When the reconcentradoes at | abroad, if application Is filed here within Marianoa were given the use of some lands pple epee agree belonging to the town they all started in afte ne of thi to ra’ nbacco, so Httle did they know of | is to antedate the application here, giving market gardening. Every ler is struck | it the date when it was filed in the foreiz with the large amount of uncultivated land | country. It also doubtless will recommend Iving close to the towns and cities. Some Wotgysesace of it may need drainage of a simple and in- ineicineck unathetn, ember; prasent exper ee ee gee | eee The commission is seck country themselves will know the value of | ing to proceed as far as possible these tracts, but I do not believe {t will be jous to effect a ge trade mark or other truck farmers have Seay GP okaee Longe rented come from the United States and taught ““These little items in production are noted trade marks to be tnvalid, and that Con- because they will have a much larger share | BTeoS aes = ¥ ar oe for z in the recuperation of Cuba than ts under- pee ane oo = loneige . 7 we siood. A dozen other instances might be a = ae aan The only trade mar mentioned, but I leave them to the future. Sack Erarsaiee ee pbc aired ee ee Opportunities in generai trade will be | Used in foreign commerce. There are thiriy- slower in coming. The middicman will not | three states having a trade mark registry . y | 8: n, and the commission would like to begin to make money in Cuba so quickly | $3 id the comm! would hi poy producer. And then he will have to | hav = ee law in force if by any act with judgment. The me-chant in the | ™e@ns possible, fur business has not yet brought his goods — = ee _ to the island, but he has written for infor- DEATH OF OLD RESIDENT. on as to the best way to have his sam- s exhibited and wanting to know what houses handle seaiskins and minks. I do not know because furs usually are worn in Samuel B. Beyer Passes Away at Age of Seventy-Five, Samuel B. Beyer, cold. countri y also be said that a life-long resident of eer a tae meadren Acocricaus in | Washington, led ‘et’ fils neakdence Cuba do not furnish a basis for opening up | Street southwest, at 6 o'clock Saturday new Lranches of trade. The market for | morning. aged seventy-five. years. Me some time to come must rest on the things | Reyer had long been identitied with the that Cubans and Spaniards have been in the habit of consuming. American Commerce. 8 interests and was always intimately ssociated with every effort toward its terial advancement and prog i ss. By nia There i opel for American ee the | UPright, conscientious and honest dealings commerce after the change comes in the : = yi] | 10 his business career he had w - custom. houses. Spanish merchants will | °% Bs bil Papal ret rpms : not be displaced, but they do not ‘realize | SPect and esteem of his fellow citizens maintained a prominent and influentia het = comeiets seveiation of bane | ation ta businees Wie tn Dents Washingtos, methods is going to be caused by an honest | Where he had always resided. administration of the customs. In the fu-| Mr. Beyer was for a number of y« sistant don the wharves building inspector of th ture goods will be delive: a and other ports to the eon- | during the incumbency of Thomas & instead of the manifest being at the inspector, h whom he was ippitg port. The reason of this practice | ated in business, He was pi when it was proposed to ship | the oldest living member of St. Dom of guano and coffee as po- { Church of South Washington. He was al director in tt Washington ling Association aves a wife, two daughters, a er, the latter being Mrs. Mary E. mother of George W. Evans, chief of finance and disbursing officer of the De- partment of the Interior. The funeral services were held this mor ing at 10 o'clock, with requiem mass Dominic's Church, t had to be made out in know how much guano of the northwest have been shipping to Cuba, but with the change in control they can begin shipping flour again as flour and can ship it to Americans who | want to engage in business in Havana. Some of these are here watching the pros- Two young men from St. Louis, announced that they proposed to take six months to study the opportunities be- fore establishing themselves, had the right idea. Other Americans who came imme- diately after the signing of the protocol did not grasp this principle and their ex- perience has soured them I do not profess to know yet just what parts of the United States are going to reap the first and greatest benefit from Cuban trade. The Atlantic coast, with the excep- tion of Baltimore, was quick to look to increased shipping. New York merchants of a_member South ns It pays to read the want c Star. Hundreds through them. lumns of The of situations are filled GOVERNMENT OF HAWAII. Bill and Report Submitted President. The Hawaiian commission has to the completed oS fare en Snost of the ordicace at: | its bill for the government of the Ha- expect to furnish. mos e ord - - cecniy dike eyes ticles of commerce. ‘The sugar crop wii | Wallan Islands as a part of United naturally go where it has been going for | States, and has also finished its r>port refining. Boston is reaching out for the fruit trade. Baltimore is sleeping as peace- fully as though it never had a flourishing trade with the West Indies. While sugar goes to the Atlantic coast refineries, the Mississippi valley ssems to realize that the flour and other breadstuffs which the peo- tters have President accompany the bill, and both rr been placed in the hands of the by Senator Culiom, chairman of missi It is the senator's expect that the President will transm!t to Congress some time this we ple of the island import for consumption | he will ask early consideration ior the are its own productions. The market which | question. Blaine opened for it is again opening with | The “bill will probably be considered greater possibilities. Chicago has made its | the cabinet before it is sont to ‘ t freight arrang>ments, but St. Louis | The bill will not radically change ex seems to be lagging. Galveston is active ing laws of Hawaii, except as to and alert to take advantage of its position and immigration. of the purest whiskey in America. Every bottie bears the official stamp of the Government guaranteeing its age and purity. It is a straight whiskey and has no “blendings,” “mixtures” or any other concoctions toinjurethestomach. Prof. R. Ogden Doremus, Professor of Chemistry in the College of New York, says: “I commend it to the public and medical profession in their practice.’’ Is it any wonder that this whiskey is become ing so popular? GEO. T. STAGG CO., Frankfort, Ky.